The synchronizing apparatus includes a block for detecting a code from an input signal, a block for detecting from the code the variable points of the code at several times as high as the symbol rate, a block for calculating a histogram of the detected variables of the code to time, and a block for deciding that the phase number at which the calculated histogram takes the maximum value is a symbol synchronization point. This synchronizing apparatus detects the zero-cross points of an intermediate frequency band signal at N times as high as the symbol rate. It also calculates a histogram of detected time (0 to N−1). The time (0 to N−1) at which the histogram is the maximum within a predetermined detected time is selected as a symbol clock, and thereby symbol synchronization is established.